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POPSEpic migration seen "through eyes of" antelope Photographer and biologist Joe Riis hopes to raise awareness of the animals' epic, ancient migration and to encourage action to protect it. "It's pretty incredible, because it's happening right in the middle of the United States," Riis said. "It seems like this type of stuff is long gone, and maybe most of the long migrations are. But this one is , and I think it's worth protecting."
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POPSGlobal Warming Legislation Effect on States The preceding is a list of the 50 state-by-state breakouts of the impact the bill would have on jobs and the economy. Lieberman-Warner (S.2191) relies heavily on an unproven technology, capturing carbon and sequestering it. Even with the most generous assumptions " presuming that carbon capture and sequestration is commercially developed in 10 years " the economic costs for the average American are staggering. Under a more realistic scenario, the economic impacts in terms of losses in the job market, losses in household budgets, and higher energy prices will be drastically higher. To make matters worse, there will be inconsequential effects on the environment to show for it, if any. The Senate's leading climate-change bill, while aiming to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide in the air, actually poses "extraordinary perils" for Americans and the economy, according to a new study from The Heritage Foundation.
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POPSWolf Hunts Will Go On; Judge Denies Injunction Bid
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and Idaho Fish and Game Commission maintained that wolf populations would not be endangered by the hunts, and Molloy found this argument more persuasive. “The defendants have offered scientific evidence that no irreparable harm will occur if the 2009 wolf hunts occur in Idaho and Montana,” Molloy stated. “Plaintiffs have failed to offer any contrary evidence. Good news in the bad Although Molloy did not stop the hunts, he did offer some good news for the environmental groups about a broader issue in the still-ongoing lawsuit to restore Endangered Species Act (ESA) status to wolves. It’s likely that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the law when it summarily removed ESA protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies, he wrote. The agency did so in piecemeal fashion, delisting wolves in Montana and Idaho while keeping them federally protected in Wyoming, where state officials . . .
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POPSInsurance companies: "Domestic violence is a pre-existing condition." Your partner hit you? No health insurance for you, ever! This is WRONG. More: “In 1995, the Boston Globe found that Nationwide, Allstate, State Farm, Aetna, Metropolitan Life, The Equitable Companies, First Colony Life, The Prudential and the Principal Financial Group had all either canceled or denied coverage to women who’d been beaten.” Source
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POPSThe $150 Edge-of-Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer-Money Budget via Jules Crittenden Of course, all this would be pointless if the guys couldn’t find the rig when it landed, so they dropped a prepaid GPS-equipped cellphone inside the box for tracking. Total cost, including duct tape? $148. Launch Two weeks ago, on Sept. 2, at the leisurely post-breakfast hour of 11:45 a.m., the balloon was launched from Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Lee and Yeh took a road trip in order to compensate for the prevailing winds, which could have otherwise taken the balloon out onto the Atlantic, and checked in on the University of Wyoming’s balloon trajectory website to estimate the landing site. Because of spotty cellphone coverage in central Massachusetts, it was important to keep the rig in the center of the state so it could be found upon landing. Light winds meant the guys got lucky and, although the cellphone’s external antenna was buried upon landing, the fix they got as the balloon was coming down was close enough.
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POPSOh no! Obama tries to indoctrinate Congress! “I don’t want my legislators exposed to political propaganda,” said Karen Bigelow, a housewife from Nacogdoches, Texas. “I did not send them to Washington to have them brainwashed by a liberal Nazi from the executive branch. Whatever happened to the separation of powers?”
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POPSOld Warrior for Peace Pursues the Same Enemy To Father Kabat, the nuclear issue - and his protests - remain essential. The building of weapons continues to drain money that could be used to fight poverty and hunger, he says, adding, as if caught in a time warp, "There's still a real threat these things could go to the U.S.S.R."
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POPSGOP Senator admits he's just blocking health reform "Gang of Six" Senator insists he has no plans to compromise and is in negotiations solely to extract concessions. Sen. Grassley, the ranking member, says even if Democrats agree to his demands, he won't vote for it unless other Republicans do.
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POPSHate Crimes in 2007 Mississippi = 0, a surprising outcome. Does it mean agencies don't report them? Or are people the most tolerant down there now due to the huge attention Mississippi got from history and Hollywood?
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POPSMatthew Shepard Act Passes Congress If signed by President Barack Obama, the act will expand the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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POPSLawsuits filed over wolf hunting in Rockies http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31073035/ This disgusts me. In one paragraph it says that there are about 300 wolves left in Wyoming. THEN it goes on to say that the population has completely returned. That is absurd.
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POPSJuly 17th - Welcome your Congressman/Senator home with TEA Click your state at http://teapartypatriots.org/HC.aspx if links below don't work. Click on your State here to find your local event and to RSVP. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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POPSFreedom in the Fifty States: Top & Bottom Rankings But what about the top and bottom ten states when all four categories are taken into account? Top Ten Overall Freedom Ranking 1. New Hampshire 2. Colorado 3. South Dakota 4. Idaho 5. Texas 6. Missouri 7. Tennessee 8. Arizona 9. Virginia 10. North Dakota Bottom Ten Overall Freedom Ranking (starting with the lowest score) 1. New York 2. New Jersey 3. Rhode Island 4. California 5. Maryland 6. Hawaii 7. Washington 8. Massachusetts 9. Illinois 10. Connecticut The bottom ten states in the Overall Freedom Ranking is almost striking in the fact that it is what one would expect: they are states controlled by the Democratic Party or liberal politics. With the advent of Obamaworld and the evermore encroachment of the federal government, the sovereignty of the states and personal freedoms will become an issue of where to live, work, and raise a family.
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POPSFattest State Weighs Its Options continued: Iowa, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania: 26.7% Maryland and Wisconsin: 26.0% Illinois: 25.9% Oregon, Virginia, and Washington: 25.4% Minnesota: 25.3% Nevada: 25.1% Arizona and Idaho:24.8% Maine: 24.7% New Mexico: 24.6% New York: 24.5% Wyoming: 24.3% Florida and New Hampshire: 24.1% California: 23.6% New Jersey: 23.4% Montana: 22.7% Utah: 22.5% Washington, D.C.: 22.3% Vermont: 22.1% Hawaii: 21.8% Rhode Island: 21.7% Connecticut: 21.3% Massachusetts: 21.2% Colorado: 18.9%
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POPSEnergy Independence A Matter of National Security This sounds reasonable enough to me. Would any of your democrats want to explain to me and to the rest of America why you refuse to allow us to tap the energy resources that BELONGS TO WE THE PEOPLE? That us OUR OIL and those are OUR RESOURCES, and the jobs those resources would create could go a long way toward turning this economy around. It is foolish to think that you can go from 1% energy generation to enough wind and solar energy to reduce our use of carbon based fuels in a reasonable enough time frame to totally rule out all carbon based fuels. That is just plain foolhardy. Care to explain dems?
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